★★★☆☆ A young Australian backpacker Clare (Teresa Palmer) emerges from a subway station in Berlin. Seen from a distance, she already looks vulnerab...

A smart, queasy riff on abduction thrillers that's heavy on psychological heft and light on pulp.

Read the Empire Movie review of Berlin Syndrome. A thoughtful chamber piece and great white knuckle thriller, Berlin Syndrome confirms Cate...

It's lurid exploitation, plain and simple — even if it is made by a director with a fine eye and no shortage of talent

A captivity drama that’s too eerie to be called a thriller

Teresa Palmer plays an Australian tourist whose vacation romance with Max Riemelt's charming German stranger turns nightmarish in Cate Shortland's dark thril...

Based on Melanie Joosten's novel of the same name, Palmer admirably embodies a taken woman forced to wild ends.

Cate Shortland’s creepy, eerily beautiful third feature delivers a familiar story, but gets by on evil ambience

Director Cate Shortland and screenwriter Shaun Grant are often too reserved in adapting Melanie Joosten’s 2011 suspense novel, “Berlin Syndrome,” but w...

A holiday fling turns into a waking nightmare in Cate Shortland’s tense romantic thriller.

In Cate Shortland's new film, an Australian woman traveling abroad becomes the captive of a mysterious stranger. Critic Justin Chang says Berlin Syndrome is ...

Teresa Palmer has a breakthrough role as a young woman on holiday in Berlin whose instant romance with a stranger results in her abduction.

Berlin Syndrome will make you question any wanderlust-inspired notions you may have of traveling alone to a foreign country on a quest for self-discovery.

Young ladies, what did your mother warn you about foreign travel? Sure, it starts with seeing the sights, taking the photos, flirting with the nice foreign f...

Dir. Cate Shortland. Australia. 2016. 116 mins.

While the recent 10 Cloverfield Lane and Room told stories of captivity with various hooks -- science-fiction and the process of healing, respectively -- Cat...

“Berlin Syndrome” is a different kind of serial-killer thriller: one that slows the predator/prey process down in order to focus on the clinical and psyc...

★★★☆☆We learn from this film never to trust a stranger, even if he is the charming owner of a cool Berlin apartment with salvaged mid-century moder...

You wanted another escape room movie? You got it!

This arresting, slightly overextended conversation piece marks Shortland's first foray into genre storytelling